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>> not as well as we would like. that's why i appreciate you doing this, because i think there is still room for more people to get out of harms way. we wish they would because it's a lot easier to take care of people who are out of the way of the storm's surge than it is to go in and try to get them out afterwards if they stayed. >> congressman, as i told the mayor and we tell local officials all the time when something like this is headed their way, if you need to get the word out, if you need to say what is needed, our brothers and sisters in nickell robey-coleman income, even up in wilming...

The earthquake in indonesia, the reason the tsunami was so high is the water went through a very narrow and shallow area of water kind of shaped as a submarine so the tsunami grew with time. there is your ivan you were talking about, chris. >> right. >> this is dennis. ivan actually made three land falls. >> right. >> when dennis came through, they were all west of panama city. to get more and talk about that surge -- because i want to get back to history for you. let me just quickly show you how -- we had it up here. here it is. the surge inundation map. we talked about this, of course, when ...

Or higher to hit florida, such as dennis. this is not going to be the strongest hurricane to make landfall since 200513 years ago. we went back a little more in history and we believe that within 40 miles of panama city, this is going to be the strongest in recorded history. that says something, because there's a whole generation of people that never had to go through something quite like this. there's a whole entire iarea of real estate that hasn't been tested by storm surge. >> you hear about buildings being hurricane proof and windows and aspects of their construction. we'll see now, 2004 h...